Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaspe the fishing boats still put out from the coves for cod and halibut. Tourists could also put out from the little bays for a day of deep-sea fishing for swordfish and tuna. Perce Rock still stood, angular and orange, out of the blue water. The thousands of birds still nested on Bonaventure Island...
Some of the world's best saltwater fishing is to be had in the warm waters off Florida's coast. Shrewd hands usually wait until late spring, when the big runs of bluefin tuna, tarpon, blue & white marlin begin. But for the professional small-boat skipper the best fishing time is now-when the tourists are running...
West Pubnico has prospered during the war. In season the hardy Pubniconian men go after lobster, herring, mackerel and tuna. Winters they repair their nets, tend their cows and chickens, live off their home-grown vegetables and the fish they salted away, and generally take life easy in their tidy, white-frame homes which are clustered about Father Leblanc's St. Peter's Church...
...Street speculator ("the wizard of the grain pit"); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1931, Iowa-born Trader Howell manipu lated a squeeze on the Chicago market, grabbed 70% of all visible corn, made himself a cool million, got temporarily suspended. In 1934, Angler Howell reeled in a 956-lb. tuna to cop the world's record. Of his fishing-& -trading methods he once observed: "I go along, ask no quarter, and doIt't give any." Died. Achmed Abdullah, 64, bemono-cled fictioneer `Who gathered material for his intrigue-filled potboilers by living a fiction-like life - working simultaneously...
...bonanza kings. Wilbur ("Little Caesar") Clark, 37-year-old operator of Las Vegas' gaudy new Monte Carlo Casino, had only $2,200 in 1941. Now he owns a gambling palace, a hotel, four cocktail bars and two cardrooms; is part owner of two more gambling halls, a California tuna clipper and a string of horses...